"The Console Market is Shrinking" is a BS Statement

[Scoobes]

Zod95 said:

Scoobes said:

Isn't that pretty much the same as a normal console life-cycle chart? If anything, the home console market is healthier now then it was in 2006 as the decline period hasn't been as significant as it obviously was leading up to 2006.

Not if you add PS2 numbers. It won't look that much healthy.

Sony shipped 14.2 million consoles in 2006 so even accounting for those numbers the total console sales are still ahead for the start of this gen (2013 numbers).

This all looks pretty typical of another console generation and typical product life cycles.